Careers at Upscale Ai

Why join Upscale, Inc. Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact. If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard. Job Responsibilities: As a member of the ASIC Design team, you will work closely with the architecture team and define and document micro-architecture on next generation designs. Responsible for the logic design/RTL entry that meets the power, performance, area targets. Collaborate closely with design verification and emulation teams to confirm that test plans meet architecture and design intent, debug complex test scenarios and coverage closure Work closely with the physical design team on timing closure and area optimization Work with the design for test team to integrate DFT logic Work independently, communicate effectively and collaborate with cross functional teams Requirements: BE or MS in EE, CE, CS 5+ years of related technical engineering experience. 5+ years of industry experience in logic design on complex ASICs Experience with SystemVerilog for logic design Understanding of fundamental principles of logic design, clock domain crossing, synthesis and timing closure Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams. Able to thrive or lead in a fast-paced startup environment. Preferred: 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a proven track record of successful tapeouts Scripting proficiency using Python, Perl etc. Experience with front end design tools like LINT, CDC, RDC Exposure to silicon bring-up Analyzing timing, area, power reports and ability to drive design fixes Knowledge of verification principles and coverage and ability to debug complex test cases Basic understanding of formal verification Past work experience on high performance, low latency networking ASICs is a big plus Growth mindset and enthusiasm to learn and grow in a fast paced environment

Why join Upscale, Inc. Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact. If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard. Position Overview About the Role: We're building the simulation platform for UpscaleAI's next-generation AI networking ASICs. The platform is a functionally accurate software model of our ASIC architecture, enabling software development, verification, and customer validation before silicon is available. You'll be responsible for developing, testing and maintaining the platform across multiple ASIC generations, ensuring it accurately represents hardware behavior and scales to support our customers' demanding AI infrastructure workloads. What You'll Work On: ASIC Architectural Model: Our current-generation ASIC simulator Next-gen ASIC models: Future silicon with enhanced AI networking features Multi-chip simulation: Modeling systems with multiple interconnected ASICs Performance optimization: Making large-scale simulations practical

Why join Upscale, Inc. Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact. If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard. About the role AI training and inference clusters live or die on the network fabric. ScaleUp builds the software that programs our high-performance Ethernet switch silicon — SDK, SAI, simulation, and the CI that keeps that stack shippable. We’re looking for a DevOps engineer at the intersection of AI infrastructure, data-center networking, and silicon-aware software: reliable pipelines for an ASIC SDK, fast feedback for developers, and release paths worthy of cloud- and AI-scale deployment. You’ll partner with SDK, SAI, and QA engineers, and work in GitHub + Jira day to day. Success means CI is trusted, simulation and software gates are clear, and infrastructure never blocks the next generation of AI networking features.

Why join Upscale, Inc. Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact. If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard. Role Summary: Operate and maintain the software and hardware engineering lab environments at Upscale, a fast-moving AI hardware and infrastructure company. This is a hands-on role: day-to-day work includes provisioning and racking servers and switches, keeping systems and networks healthy, and following the standards and automation already set up by senior engineering staff. You're the person engineers and lab owners rely on to get equipment up and running, keep things tracked, and keep projects moving. There's room to grow into broader systems and network ownership as the lab and team scale. This role suits someone comfortable wearing multiple hats in a fast-paced environment, rather than operating in a narrow, siloed function. Responsibilities: Hands-on provisioning and operations: provision and configure servers, switches, and storage for lab use; receive, commission, and physically deploy lab hardware; take ownership of routine maintenance and troubleshooting yourself; rack and stack hardware as part of routine setup. Day-to-day systems and network administration: install, configure, and maintain physical and virtual servers and lab network equipment, following established configuration standards; working knowledge of basic networking (switches, TCP/IP, DNS/DHCP); administer Linux/Windows systems day to day (OS installs, patching, routine config); operate virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, Proxmox) for software and hardware development environments; run existing automation tools (e.g., Ansible playbooks) built by senior staff; monitor system and network health using established tools and respond to alerts. Lab owner support and coordination: work with lab owners and engineers across both software and hardware teams to understand what they need set up and when; keep them updated on status; flag upcoming capacity or equipment needs to leadership rather than independently planning long term architecture. Project and request management: triage and prioritize incoming requests; keep status updated; coordinate with the ASIC team to keep work moving. Requirements: 7 to 10 years of hands on experience provisioning and operating servers, networking equipment, and lab or data center infrastructure, ideally supporting a software and hardware development engineering environment. Working knowledge of basic networking (switches, protocols) and Linux/Windows server administration. Familiarity with virtualization platforms (VMware, Proxmox, or similar). Able to run established automation tools (e.g., Ansible) without needing to build or architect them. Comfortable with physical hardware installation as everyday work, including rack and stack. Experience tracking inventory and assets and helping manage procurement. Good organizational skills for juggling multiple requests. Willing and able to travel to or work on site at colocation or data center facilities as needed. Preferred Qualifications: Experience in a networking, server, or infrastructure company. Background at an AI hardware or infrastructure startup, a semiconductor or networking hardware company with hands-on bring-up or validation labs, or a hyperscale data center operator, ideally having worn multiple hats rather than a narrow, single-function role. Familiarity with monitoring and provisioning tools. Prior experience in a hardware or engineering lab environments. Prior hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration-management tools is a plus.